Hi again,
I would proceed to a vote with this (and do intend to still), but the
response from internals has been very quiet. Has it gotten lost among
all the other things happening? :)
I realise it's not a very exciting change of course, and there isn't
much to discuss about it. It's pretty much a like it or hate it RFC with
no particular nuance beyond that.
One thing I do wonder about (given reaction on reddit and my personal
general doubt) is how internals feels about whether we should take the
opposite approach, that is, to break backwards-compatibility by
rejecting *leading* whitespace in numeric strings instead. All the
arguments in favour of this RFC's approach can also apply to that
approach if you flip them around. The main reason to go for what I did
so far is, well, it's harder to justify backwards-compatibility
breakages. But I also initially came up with this when PHP 8 wasn't on
the horizon.
Andrea
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